Why, has he got a green door?

There is some truth in what you say and there will be those using the new Brexit, Trump world and an excuse to abuse minorities. Those kind of bullies need to be put in their place by the law and indeed those on the right of politics.
There is a more disturbing trend to come out of all this though. The Orwellian idea of right thinking created by the liberal left. It's almost as if Orwell really could see the future. The inability to accept democracy with it's rules laid down well before a vote and the dismissal of other opinions as inferior. It's scary that so called intellectuals can think this way. We don't always get the result we want and in recent cases it is largely the fault of our rulers. They have allowed mass migration against the wishes and interests of the majority and they have tried to manipulate the minds of the people in Orwellian style with phony reasons for conflicts and heaven knows what else that we are unaware of, but people aren't so dumb after all. They sense when something is not what it appears.

Thank you for your pleasant opening gambit.... you are a charmer.

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I mentioned Easton as well as St Pauls.... see the above article from the Evening Post (and was highlighted on local TV) about a shooting which the police say they're keeping an open mind on, but we all know it involves drugs. There have been quite a few reports of gun crime ad stabbings in and around Stapleton Road this past few years.

As for St Pauls becoming gentrified I am not yet convinced, but I confess I haven't actually driven through it lately. Montpelier/Stokes Croft/Cheltenham Rd areas are a bit different to City Road St Pauls and immediate environs though. I doubt that you'd be made welcome in any of the pubs there? Having said that I agree that you would probably not be made welcome in the pubs of Southmead or Knowle West (particularly if you were foreign looking or had a non Bristolian accent).

But your conclusion that danger lurks in every city in the UK doesn't reassure me and that demonstrates a massive sea change in behaviour since I was out and about at "silly O'clock on the lash in my youth.

I don't think this is just a phenomena of the Liberal Left - the right when Obama was elected hardly acted any better.

Problem is, something I noticed in the recent US elections, and in Brexit here, that engaging in reasoned debate rather than rhetoric and statements seems to have died. One of the curious things about the US Presidential Debates is that they weren't debates.

Liberalism can only really work when its reasoned debate and engagement with the people. The issue of mass migration itself isn't the problem per se - its that the vast majority of people don't really benefit, and arguably lose out, as a result.

Liberalism requires pragmatism to be effective - It shouldn't be touting gay rights on the basis say 'right thinking' but from a reasoned argument on the rights of citizens to fair treatment in society.

But that's me, I think everything is a philosophical question.

See I like right wingers, as they sharpen up my arguing skills. Its why the HoL is better than the BBS - Its more enagaging to argue, than to nod in quiet agreement.

Plus maybe we all learn something along the way.